Throughout the 1970s, Queen were rightfully regarded as one of the most creative acts for how they managed to blur the boundaries of pop and rock music and dominated the world with it. Of course, like any band, they had to grow from somewhere in their infancy as a group, and while the first couple […]
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It seems that no matter how many years pass by, and as the world becomes a more inconsistent and scary place, the one thing you can always rely on is people’s love for Queen. Ever since that band originally laid music on wax, there has been a mass of fans flocking to see what they […]
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Anyone who has ever practised guitar can only hope to do a fraction of what Brian May could do when working with Queen. Although he isn’t going to be the same kind of ferocious player that Steve Vai or even Eddie Van Halen was, his strong suit was always in writing the best hooks for […]
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Queen axeman Brian May surely sits in the top ten of UK guitarists? There’s stiff competition, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and David Gilmour all likely to muscle their way to the front of any such list, but May’s melodic playing style and flair for grand harmonic wield proved an essential binding agent to Queen frontman […]
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Recently, the song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ celebrated its 50th anniversary, and fans of Queen everywhere came out to praise the classic. You can’t blame them either. How often do you find yourself talking to fans of a certain band, hearing them ramble on about the so-called classics they adore, only for you to think, “It’s not […]
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Brian May has hit out against Sam Mendes’ upcoming set of biopics on The Beatles, describing it as “pretty invidious”. Rather than telling the story of the Fab Four in one film, Mendes is making four movies, which will explore their iconic tale from the perspective of each member. Sony has hailed it as “the […]
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Queen guitarist Brian May has ruled the band out of performing at Glastonbury Festival in the future. May has spent the last decade campaigning against the culling of badgers by farmers in order to stop bovine tuberculosis from spreading to herds of cattle. In 2013, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis announced his support for badger culling, […]
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The Guitarist Brian May Said Was Better Than Jimi Hendrix There is a near-universal cultural agreement that Jimi Hendrix stands as the greatest guitarist in history—a status cemented not only by his revolutionary sound but also by the tragic fact that he died at just 27, leaving behind only three studio albums. Hendrix’s legacy is […]
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Nothing about Brian May was ever about being subtle whenever he stepped behind the fretboard. Whereas most guitar players have found a way to make the guitar sound beautifully subdued, there’s something about the way that May laid his fingers across the frets that made everything sound so regal whenever he played, whether that was […]
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Today, we see Queen as storming visionaries of their era. But at the time, convincing the rest of the world of that vision was a bit more of an uphill struggle for the band. After all, as much as the early 1970s took the spirit of glam rock by the reins and ran wild with […]
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